[openbeosmediakit] Re: soundcard API :-(

From: "Marcus Overhagen" <dos4gw@xxxxxx>

To: openbeosmediakit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 13:58:35 +0200

David McPaul <dmcpaul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Well, my first thought is that we want to have for the first release the API
>that allows us to use the most drivers. I assume this is the R3 one?
Yes, correct.
>Then for the next release we work on our own API. I am guessing that the R4
>and R5 API's have a low usage and so might be easier to ignore?
Two drivers seem to use the R5(multiaudio) API, I don't know how many use the R4
API.
>So I suggest we get R3 API working, then build a better one.
Jens Winkler is working on supporting the R3 one. We could also use
the BeOS R5 lagacy.media_addon and load it, but it would be nicer to have our
own.
Marcus